The Harvey Girls

The Harvey Girls
theatrical poster
Directed byGeorge Sidney
Robert Alton (musical number)
Written byKay Van Riper (additional dialogue)
Screenplay byEdmund Beloin
Nathaniel Curtis
Harry Crane
James O'Hanlon
Samson Raphaelson
Story byEleanore Griffin
William Rankin
Based onThe Harvey Girls
1942 novel
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Produced byArthur Freed
StarringJudy Garland
John Hodiak
Ray Bolger
Angela Lansbury
Virginia O'Brien
CinematographyGeorge J. Folsey
Edited byAlbert Akst
Music byHarry Warren (music)
Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
Lennie Hayton (score)
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • January 18, 1946 (1946-01-18)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,931,000[1]
Box office$5,175,000[1]

The Harvey Girls is a 1946 Technicolor American musical film produced by Arthur Freed for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is based on the 1942 novel of the same name by Samuel Hopkins Adams, about Fred Harvey's Harvey House waitresses.[2] Directed by George Sidney, the film stars Judy Garland and features John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, and Angela Lansbury, as well as Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien, Kenny Baker, Marjorie Main and Chill Wills. Future star Cyd Charisse appears in her first speaking role on film.

The Harvey Girls won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", written by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer.

  1. ^ a b Glancy, H. Mark (1992). "MGM film grosses, 1924–1948: The Eddie Mannix Ledger". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 12 (2): 127–144. doi:10.1080/01439689200260081.
  2. ^ Zaballos, Nausica (2014) Mythes et Gastronomie de l'Ouest américain: sur la route Paris: Le Square. pp.101-110.